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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
90
Citations
37995
World Ranking
194
National Ranking
33

Gill Valentine publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gill Valentine sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 258 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Gill Valentine D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gill Valentine sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Gill Valentine is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within the social sciences and health professions. Among their main fields of study are social sciences with nine publications, and health professions with three publications.

The scientist's work intersects several subfields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, geography, planning and development, demography, and finance. Their research topics cover a broad range, emphasizing homelessness and social issues, geographies of human-animal interactions, migration, aging, and tourism studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, migration, ethnicity, and economy, Hong Kong and Taiwan politics, and China's socioeconomic reforms and governance.

Gill Valentine has published research in various academic venues, notably:

  • Dialogues in Human Geography
  • Geoforum
  • Urban Geography
  • International Sociology

Frequent collaborators include Mark Jayne, with whom they have co-authored four papers, Chen Liu in two instances, and Aneta Piekut with one co-authored publication.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • "Alcohol, drinking, drunkenness and everyday financial lives: Relational geographies of family and work in China" (2022), published in Geoforum
  • "" yúlóng-hùnzá" - fish and dragons (bad and good people) mixing together: young people, urban life and alcohol, drinking, drunkenness in China" (2021), published in Urban Geography
  • "Beyond moralising, disciplining and normalising discourses: Re-thinking geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness" (2023), published in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "Towards new knowledge complexes for critical geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness" (2024), published in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "Generation-making narratives and responses to diversity in Poland" (2021), published in International Sociology

Gill Valentine has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. No specific year was provided for this award.

Best Publications

  • Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat

    David Bell;Gill Valentine

  • Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter:

    Gill Valentine

  • Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography*

    Gill Valentine

  • Key Methods in Geography

    N. J. Clifford;Gill Valentine

  • The geography of women's fear

    Gill Valentine

  • Children's Geographies : Playing, Living, Learning

    Sarah L. Holloway;Gill Valentine

  • Cool places : geographies of youth cultures

    Tracey Skelton;Gill Valentine

  • Children's outdoor play: exploring parental concerns about children's safety and the changing nature of childhood

    Gill Valentine;John McKendrck

  • Key Thinkers on Space and Place

    Phil Hubbard;Rob Kitchin;Gill Valentine

  • Social Geographies: Space and Society

    Gill Valentine

  • Public Space and the Culture of Childhood

    Gill Valentine

  • Cyberkids : children in the information age

    Sarah L. Holloway;Gill Valentine

  • (Hetero)Sexing Space: Lesbian Perceptions and Experiences of Everyday Spaces:

    G Valentine

  • ”Oh Yes I Can.”“Oh No You Can't”: Children and Parents' Understandings of Kids' Competence to Negotiate Public Space Safely

    Gill Valentine

  • Angels and Devils: Moral Landscapes of Childhood

    Gill Valentine

  • Spatiality and the New Social Studies of Childhood

    Sarah L. Holloway;Gill Valentine

  • CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD: THE PRODUCTION AND TRANSGRESSION OF ADULTS' PUBLIC SPACE

    Gill Valentine

  • All hyped up and no place to go

    David Bell;Jon Binnie;Julia Cream;Gill Valentine

  • CHILDREN’S GEOGRAPHIES AND THE NEW SOCIAL STUDIES OF CHILDHOOD

    Sarah L. Holloway;Gill Valentine

  • Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities

    David Bell;Gill Valentine

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah L. Holloway
Sarah L. Holloway Loughborough University
David Bell
David Bell University of Leeds
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Nicholas J. Clifford
Nicholas J. Clifford Loughborough University
Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong
Gordon R Waitt
Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong
M.V. Lee Badgett
M.V. Lee Badgett University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stephen P. Rice
Stephen P. Rice Newcastle University
Phil Hubbard
Phil Hubbard King's College London
Lowell J. Taylor
Lowell J. Taylor Carnegie Mellon University

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